Suffering from an internal struggle, I love to be on the latest and greatest WordPress, but I’m also extremely lazy and don’t enjoy the pain of upgrading. The WordPress upgrade process is annoying at best. If you follow all the rules and, back up your database, backup your old files, disable all your plug-ins, delete all your old files, upload the latest distribution, pray that it works and re-enable all your plug-ins, it’s something that you might want to put off indefinitely.
Today “digging” around the web I found a review of the plug-in to answer my upgrade or not dilemma. The review was on GeekyGirlyGirl (I think I’m in love, don’t tell my wife ;)) for the InstantUpgrade plugin created by Zirona. This plugin is awesome, with a little bit of chmodding, after installing I was able to instantly upgrade to Wordpress 2.2.1 with the touch of a button and fully expect all future upgrades to be as simple. I concur with the GeekyGirlyGirl’s recommendation and I’m thrilled to enter the realm of hassle free WordPress upgrades.
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